Recent content by Ralph Spurrier

I visited Bevington Road last week and found my great-grandfather's house is still there at back of 18 Bevington Road down the alleyway between 18 and 20. He had lived at no.19 but I can see that that row of houses has now been demolished. The four houses numbered 1-4 back of 18 Bevington Road...

Hi Big Gee, Thanks for that information. Moxon is not a name I recognise. I see from an earlier reply that there were(are) four houses down that alleyway and I am presuming that one of those was owned by my great-grandfather James Spurrier. He lived on until 1932 but whether he was still there...

Hi Stars, Thanks for your reply and comment. I don't want to let the Bevington Road thread go off topic so I'll be brief. At the beginning all I had to go on was one funeral card (my grandmother's) which gave the date of her death and where she was buried (St.John's Perry Barr) and one photocard...

mikejee: Many thanks for this vital information. James Sheldon Spurrier was my great-grandfather so it would appear that this was his house and his son moved in with him after Lucy's death. (Lucy Spurrier died June 1st 1919 so either the information for the electoral rolls of 1920 for Franchise...

Big Gee, I'm new to this board and am just started on the search for the background to my grandparent's lives in Birmingham in the first 20 years or so of the 20th century. I recently acquired the Death Certificate of my grandfather - Alfred William Spurrier. He died in August 1926 of TB at the...